Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 1: the Story
New Books in Literary Studies
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The Epilogue to Rosalinde and Orlando
The play ends with an epilogue spoken by Rosalinde. She notes that it's unusual to give the epilogue to a female character. The epilogue unsettles whether we should call her a female character at all. As you like it, it shapes Bier's exploration of his culture's sex and gender system. If his innovative take on male and female isn't the same as ours, it shows that these categories have always been up for debate.
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